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  • Creating custom feeds in WordPress

    Consider subscribing to my blog's RSS feed. It's sticky

    WordPress logoMost WordPress blogs throw off RSS feeds for posts and comments by default. But some of the fun with RSS comes from repackaging and republishing content from blogs that is custom or targeted in nature. Let’s say you follow this blog and want to subscribe only to posts on local search. Or, perhaps I want to republish only posts about PR on my Instant Press Release page.

    If you or the blog you are following uses WordPress you can easily create a feed based on a category. Categories are used by most every blogger to help, well, categorize and tag the content for easier searching and search engine notification. To create a category specific feed with WordPress you simply click on any category link (scroll down the lower left sidebar for mine) and add /feed to the end of URL in your browser and “poof” instant category feed. - http://www.domain.com/blog/category/categoryname/feed

    Some examples:
    http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/category/web-marketing/feed/ - Web Marketing
    http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/category/search-engines/feed/ - Search Engines
    http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/category/local-search/feed/ - Local Search

    Now you can take this URL to Bloglines
    or Google Reader and subscribe only to the individual categories of content you want or get really tricky and take this feed to FeedBurner and republish laser focused content on your web pages using their buzz boost feature.

    I devoted an entire feature article in my newsletter recently to some other Simple RSS Tricks

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Oct 09, 07 | 6:06 am
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    • Great tip. So simple I never thought about it!!
    • Oh, thank you!! I was trying to do this just yesterday, and the way I found of doing it wouldn't work with Feedburner. Perfect timing, John.
    • Hello! Great article...in fact I wrote one almost just like it a few weeks ago.

      Over at Blog About Your Blog.

      See ya...
    • Thanks for the category tip. I had not thought to do this for my wordpress blogs. Greatly appreciated.
    • Very helpful! Thanks for the how-to!
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